Through the eye of time
Subtitle: photographs of Arunachal Pradesh 1859-2006 : tribal cultures in the eastern Himalayas
By: by Michael Aram Tarr and Stuart Blackburn.
Contributors: Blackburn, Stuart H.
Series: Brill's Tibetan studies library -- v. 16/1
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9789004165229
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- India -- Andhra Pradesh -- Pictorial works; Tribes -- India -- Arunāchal Pradesh -- Pictorial works; Arunāchal Pradesh (India) -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "This is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas." "More than 200 photographs, half archival and half contemporary, reveal that tribal cultures in this remote mountainous region have been continually reacting to external forces and initiating internal innovations. The Introduction places the archival photographs in their wider context, emphasising the complexity of the colonial encounter and uncovering personal stories behind many of the images. The sequence of photographs, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary, shows us the uneven and sometimes confusing mixture of past and present that is emerging in Arunachal Pradesh."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.